Beth Gibbons Quotes
Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging liberation of the LGBTQ community, traditional definitions of masculinity are changing for the better.
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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
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When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.
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As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age.
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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
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Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.
